Biden Covid Adviser Says He Doesn’t Support Opening School Due to New ‘Variants’

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OSTERHOLM: “First of all, let me start off as a grandfather of five school-aged children. I obviously understand more than you can know how important it is to have kids in school. I actually have supported school openings, particularly for those under eighth grade and younger, because the epidemiology or the pattern of disease that we see in grade school suggests that the kids transmit the virus very little. They themselves get infected less than we see in the general population, and teachers were not really at increased risk. And then the variants came. B-117 in Europe was actually picked up because even when in total lockdown, when the schools were still open, the virus spread dramatically and guess what, kids were the number one source of spread. So we’re now confronted with this new fact that this particular variant does infect kids.”